Re: Which environment variable?

[Nikos Vassiliadis]

On Monday 14 January 2008 09:35:41 Matiss wrote:
 Is there such environment variable, which changes window title for
 putty?

No there is no such variable, that I am aware of.
You just have to send some control characters to the terminal to
change its title. How to send these characters really depends on
your shell.

 How do I change that title to let's say server name for my shell?

You could use something like this in your ~/.bash_profile if you
use bash.

echo -en \033]0;`hostname`\007

The above sends:
1) ASCII \033
2) ]
3) 0
4) ;
5) the_hostname
6) ASCII \007

The idea is that you should initiliaze the xterm's title at login
time. Check the page below for your favorite shell. There are even
two workaround in Perl and C in case your shell has no easy way to
send the control characters.

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/text/Xterm-Title

HTH, Nikos
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Re: Which environment variable?

[Don Read]

On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 09:35:41 +0200 Matiss said:

 Is there such environment variable, which changes window title for
 putty? I mean, MC is able to change it to working dir I think.. How
 do I change that title to let's say server name for my shell?
 
 Thanks :)

man xprop

Or for the terminally lazy,
cat xtitle
#!/bin/sh
#
# gets/sets xterm title
#

me=`basename $0`
usage=Usage : $me [pwd | new title ... ] ('pwd' sets it to the current 
directory);

Adjective='Current'

while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
case $1 in
--help | -help | -h | -\?)
echo;
echo $usage;
exit 0;;
-*) echo $me: Unrecognized switch: $1 ($me -help to show valid 
options);
exit 1;;
pwd) Adjective='New';
Title=`pwd`;;
*)  Adjective='New';
Title=$1;
while [ $# -gt 1 ]
do
shift;Title=$Title $1;
done;;
esac
shift
done
if [ -n $Title ]
then
xprop -id $WINDOWID -set WM_NAME $Title;
fi
Title=`xprop -id $WINDOWID | grep WM_NAME | cut -d= -f2`
echo $Adjective 'title :' $Title
exit 0



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Re: Which environment variable?

[Jerry McAllister]

On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 09:35:41AM +0200, Matiss wrote:

 Is there such environment variable, which changes window title for
 putty? I mean, MC is able to change it to working dir I think.. How
 do I change that title to let's say server name for my shell?

I think what you are referring to is the Xterm title so you need
to do that using Xterm stuff.   I set the titles in my xinitrc file.
There is probably something you can do on the fly too, but I have
never tried it.   

But, anyway, look at setting Xterm window titles.

jerry

 
 Thanks :)
 
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